An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is Annexed, A Letter to Lord -----, Containing a Critique on Taste, Judgment, and Rhetorical Expression, and Remarks on the Leading Actors of the Day ...J. Bigg, 1826 - 206 páginas |
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... original form , force , and size . The piercing optics of our mighty poet saw this , and with a well skilled hand he drew those universal habits , feelings , passions , and desires , which are born with all men , and interwoven with ...
... original form , force , and size . The piercing optics of our mighty poet saw this , and with a well skilled hand he drew those universal habits , feelings , passions , and desires , which are born with all men , and interwoven with ...
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... original , " She was the ocean to the river of his thoughts Which terminated all . " What use are the three last words . They cannot they do not add to it . Addition spoils the line . Read it without them , ( putting the period at ...
... original , " She was the ocean to the river of his thoughts Which terminated all . " What use are the three last words . They cannot they do not add to it . Addition spoils the line . Read it without them , ( putting the period at ...
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... original of the characters created by the first of dramatic writers . A quick eye may perceive some shades of similarity in others of his characters . In this to this , there are none . Neither has Shakespeare himself , nor any ...
... original of the characters created by the first of dramatic writers . A quick eye may perceive some shades of similarity in others of his characters . In this to this , there are none . Neither has Shakespeare himself , nor any ...
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... original . There is no other play which has a character of this cast in it . There is no other author who has attempted to place his hero in this commanding and teaching position . He tells the others exactly , nay critically , what to ...
... original . There is no other play which has a character of this cast in it . There is no other author who has attempted to place his hero in this commanding and teaching position . He tells the others exactly , nay critically , what to ...
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... nature — nothing of Shakespeare . Mr. Sheridan made this very injudicious altera- tion . Rolla in the original merely utters a concise . ejaculation , at once sufficient and natural - such too 64 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE .
... nature — nothing of Shakespeare . Mr. Sheridan made this very injudicious altera- tion . Rolla in the original merely utters a concise . ejaculation , at once sufficient and natural - such too 64 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE .
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Página 14 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Página 60 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Página 140 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 140 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 12 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Página 15 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Página 15 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Página 21 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Página 39 - With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you, now ! The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Página 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.